Ohio State Bird Cardinal TeeOhio State Bird Cardinal Tee There are few sights in Ohio that stop you mid step like a male Northern Cardinal in fresh winter plumage that absolute red against a gray February sky or a snow covered feeder is genuinely startling every single time. Ohio's state bird is a year round resident, which means cardinals are there for every season: the male's territorial singing in late winter when everything else is still quiet, the courtship feeding in